Freiburg used to be the centre for doping in the Federal Republic of Germany. For eight years now, a Commission has tried to fathom the entire scale of this scandal.

Duke University offers a free course on Sport and Society via the online e-learning platform Coursera.

Lennart Johansson, whose powerful stature always inspired awe, is 80 years old. The Swede has had a full life, he has even served as a football official. He served as the President of the European Football Union (UEFA) between 1990 and 2007, and he is the founding father of the UEFA Champions League.

Review by Steve Menary of Hans Bonde's latest book, ‘Football With The Foe – Danish sport under the swastika’, which examines wartime sport during the Nazi occupation of Denmark.

Barry Bonds, Major League Baseball player with the San Francisco Giants, recently broke Hank Aarons 33 year old home run record. Rather than uniting the American people in a coast-to-coast celebration of the sport, the new record holder has divided them into two; those who believe he is a clean athlete and those who believe he is not.

Knowledge bank: Young people from indigenous cultures - societies which did not until recently have a history and culture of suicide - set alarming records of suicide.

Knowledge bank: Professor of sports history, Hans Bonde, gives a brief introduction to the fascinating history of the Danish gymnastics pedagogue Niels Bukh. He revolutionized male aesthetics, became a symbol of Danishness and was dangerously close to the Nazis during the 1930's. 

Knowledge bank: The Workshop of Sports History is a Danish experimental centre. The task is to collect, study, reintroduce, and revitalise traditional games from the European area.